THE FIRST EPISTLE OF ST. PAUL TO THE CORINTHIANS

ST. PAUL, having planted the faith in Corinth, where he had preached a year and a half and converted a great many, went to Ephesus. After being there three years, he wrote this first Epistle to the Corinthians, and sent it by the same persons; Stephanus, Fortunatus, and Achaicus, who had brought their letter to him. It was written about twenty-four years after our Lord's Ascension, and contains several matters appertaining to faith and morals, and also to ecclesiastical discipline. He reproves their dissensions about their teachers. The world was to be saved by preaching of the cross, and not by human wisdom or eloquence.